Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Quotes

• No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Men, Play, Weakness

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• Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Mistake, Book, Men

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• Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Men, Law, Feels

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• Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

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  Funny, Men, Giving

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• He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Creativity, Decision, Chance

  "Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections". Book by George Savile, 1750.

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• There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Men, Littles, Excuse

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• When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.

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  People, Victory, Liberty

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• The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Law, Secret, May

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• He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Business, Pride, Thinking

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• There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

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  Thinking, Philosopher, Reason

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• Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

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  Men, Artistic, Danger

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• Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

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  Children, Couple, Parent

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• A princely mind will undo a private family.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Mind

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• When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.

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  Cutting, Men, Wings

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• Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Memories, Men, Jewels

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• You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  World, May, Garments

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• Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Men, Care, Want

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• Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Men, Might, Remember

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• The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Memories, Good Memories, Prophet

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• Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Long, Arms, Lows

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• A wise man will keep his Suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Wise, Men, Awake

  "Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections)". Book by Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet, 1750.

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